Jose, I have spent a good amount of time looking at Trajan's column. What you have been able to bring out with your skill and patience is the science, engineering and art back in ancient history that went into putting up this structure that has withstood time!

Ben, your shop window reflection images are always super. And looks like there's a bit of space near Nikki to add another lens to your collection

Ray (FL), superb interior images of that mansion.

Ray (OH), very nice images of the Fallen Timbers monument, both the wide angle and the composition with the zoom!

saph wrote:
Interesting observation about the 24 2.8, George. I just haven't used it in months, may need to check it out more. I went back and looked at larger size photos of the tree with the two lenses. The corners/edges are just smears in the 20UD image (and that's after a bit of cropping at the edges). The 24 2.8 AIS image is sharp all the way across the frame (no cropping). Maybe a slight falloff at the very far edge of the image, but not much, still can make out distinct grass blades at the edges of the bottom corners.

The 24mm 2.8AIS is much like the 28mm2.8 in quality and sharpness corner to corner, it just doesn't get the same respect
The flowers and the cardinal shots are very nice!
Thanks to all for the comments on the mansion photos

Nikkor-P 105mm f/2.5 (Sonnar) ai'd vs. Nikkor Q.C 200mm f/4 ai'd, both wide open
D600, ISO 200, no PP, straight from the camera - conversion at ViewNX 2.7 and resizing at CS5.
The 105 image was cropped to reach 200mm FOV.
As no PP was made, the pictures were taken at the same time (~10:57-11:02h) and sun light, and the D600 config was the same, colours differences (bluish 105, yellowish 200) are supposedly lens related.